President Biden: Shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline

The Dakota Access Pipeline is threatening the drinking water and sacred land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other Indigenous peoples and has destroyed farms and communities along it's 1,000-mile-plus route. But, the Army Corp of Engineers said it will allow the pipeline to continue operating despite the fact it is doing so in violation of a court order requiring a long-overdue environmental review on the pipeline.

President Biden needs to use his authority to enforce this order and shut down the pipeline immediately.

Pipelines like DAPL are not the answer to our energy needs. Fossil fuel extraction, production and infrastructure are a direct threat to our air, water and clean energy future. In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. That means shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Send a message to President Biden: It’s time to shut down DAPL.

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The climate crisis is already happening. How bad it's allowed to get depends on the decisions we make today. We don't have the luxury of time — we need to stop extracting and burning oil and gas now. And we need to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure that harms communities and locks us into decades of climate emissions we can't afford. You took a great step when you shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline; please take another and shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

The Dakota Access Pipeline risks contaminating the drinking water and sacred land of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Indigenous people, farmers and communities along its 1,000-mile-plus route through the Dakotas and into Iowa and Illinois.

Pipelines like DAPL are not the answer to our energy needs. Fossil fuel extraction, production and infrastructure are a direct threat to our air, water and clean energy future. If we are serious about protecting our communities from the worst impacts of climate change, we need to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure and move to 100 percent clean energy.

I urge you to do what’s best for our air, water, communities and planet — and that includes shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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